CAPE FOUNDATION NEW WRITERS AWARD

Alice Wu (Pictured Right), Writer and Director of "Saving Face", winner of the 2000 CFNWA

In keeping with the goals of CAPE, the CAPE Foundation sponsors an annual writing contest in two categories: Screenwriting and TV Writing. Winners receive (i) a $4000.00 cash prize, (ii) writing software and (iii) an opportunity to pitch their winning script to a select group of entertainment executives. In addition, staged readings of the winning screenplay have been performed.

Submissions for the 9th Annual CAPE Foundation New Writers Awards begins January 15, 2008. Deadline for entries must be postmarked by Friday, May 30, 2008. Winners will be announced in August.

The New Writers Award offers aspiring Asian Pacific writers the opportunity to gain exposure among studio executives, producers, and agents and managers. Previous winner Alice Wu’s honored script SAVING FACE produced by Board of Advisor Teddy Zee, picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics and premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

Many past winners of the CAPE Foundation writing awards have achieved notable success.

Simon Wei-ning Sun wrote a 20-episode series, now in its first run on TV in China; plus a psychological thriller, the first of its kind in China. He is also working on a new animated series for Nickelodeon.

Suzi Shimo-yama Mercer was chosen through CAPE for the ABC & Disney Scholarship Development Grant, and worked with CAPE mentors and Touchstone, and developed an original television pilot script last year.

Cynthia Liu’s current project, “World on a String,” is a feature documentary, about Fililpino-Americans who launched the yo-yo in America a hundred years ago, is in post production.